Seagate has announced that it is shipping the densest 3.5 inch desktop hard drive available - cramming an incredible 329 gigabits per square inch. The company has achieved this feat thanks to achieving an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch on its latest platters - the highest the industry has seen to date. The higher areal density should mean higher performance and potentially lower power consumption from fewer platters. Seagate claims the drive hits sustained data rates of 160MB/sec, up from the 115MB/sec of its previous 1TB drive.

This new platter technology will also be available in drives with 750GB and 500GB capacities with 32MB and 16MB cache options for undisclosed prices.

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